Kate Moss, Jamie Hince wedding 'cost £1m'

Kate Moss's wedding to Jamie Hince reportedly cost £1m.The three-day event is said to have included a masked ball, acrobats, a £10,000 five-tier cake and a fountain of Cristal champagne.

The supermodel also organised her own mini-festival for Saturday, with performances from Shirley Bassey, Snoop Dogg, Iggy Pop, Bryan Ferry and Beth Ditto.

"Kate didn't mind paying for it because she wanted to thank all her friends and family who have stuck by her during some pretty rough times," a source told the News of the World. "Her dad Peter gave £50,000 and Sir Philip Green is meant to have made a very generous offer to help pay for the wedding as well. Not that Kate needs the money.

"It was very Kate. There was a huge chest of handmade Venetian masks that all had incredible detail and weird images on them. There was baroque music, performing acrobats and a table of Venetian cuisine. There was a fountain of Cristal champagne that was incredible.

"And Jamie had a station serving wine from the Côtes du Rhône. His rocker friends are also very fussy eaters so he made sure that there was a separate vegan and fish menu available. There was a dedicated children's marquee with a team of ten nannies and two drama teachers to put on plays."

Guests at the reception, which took place at Moss's Cotswolds farmhouse, included Sir Paul McCartney, Jude Law, Sadie Frost, Meg Matthews and Naomi Campbell.

Moss also sent bottles of champagne and thank you notes to local residents, after nearby roads were closed for the occasion.

Lara Bingle 'signs deal with photo agency'

Aussie bikini model Lara Bingle has reportedly signed a deal with a photo agency.
She is said to have struck a deal with photo agency Big Pictures for a cut of profits made from her own photos.

It is understood rival agencies are seething over the deal, which are generally commonplace in the US.
The move means Bingle can create and control the pictures released for sale to magazines and newspapers.
Bingle was snapped yesterday looking perfect after a long-haul flight from London.
The photo had a price tag of 250 dollars and it is thought Bingle would receive about 50 per cent of profits in a deal.

News of an alliance came as a surprise to Bingle's manager, Titus Day, who denied the pin-up had struck an agreement with self-proclaimed "Mr Paparazzi" Darren Lyons.

"We haven't done any deals with anyone," the Daily Telegraph quoted Day as saying.
But the millionaire Big Pictures agency owner has been seen lunching with Bingle on several occasions in recent weeks, and the former cricket WAG was seen at Sydney airport recently giving one Big Pictures photographer directions to her location.

Goa gears up for Lara-Mahesh wedding

The 36-year-old tennis ace Mahesh Bhupati and 32-year-old Bollywood actress Lara Dutta will tie knot in a formal church wedding on Saturday, after a star-studded sangeet ceremony held at Club Fresh on the Candolim beach on Friday.

The couple, who legally registered their marriage in a Mumbai Court on February 17, has organized a grand reception at a five-start resort near Sinquerim beach with approximately 200 invitees.


The lounge-club was decked up in white keeping in tune with the theme for the sangeet ceremony.

The entry into the sangeet venue was strictly invite-based. Volley of camera and photo journalists had planted themselves outside the venue but failed to catch proper glimpse of the event.


Sources close to the couple said that live music was played by a dholak party brought from Mumbai. Live performances by acrobatic group Lucien Dossier from California was also a part of the entertainment line up.

Renowned DJ Whosane and Lucent Dossier’s group from Los Angeles rocked the ceremony into a memorable event.

“Lara wore a beautiful marigold coloured lehanga designed by Manav Gangwani and her beau Mahesh look cool with chikankari churidar kurta. The best Goan seafood, sushi, Goan and Pan Asian cuisines was served to the guests,” said the source.

Sources further said that the former Miss Universe will be adorned with classy and beautiful diamond earrings and necklace for the Christian style wedding.

Bollywood celebrities including Boman Irani, Ritiesh Deshmukh, Sajid Khan, Bipasha Basu, Priyanka Chopra, Cellina Jaitley and Tennis sensations like Rohan Bopanna and Leander Paes are in guest list.

Shah Rukh Khan who is also invited for the wedding may not turn up but surely his wife Gauri Khan is down in Goa to bless the couple.